Dawn Bennett Robson was born in Durham, North Carolina. She has also lived in Virginia, New York, and Florida, and currently resides in Salisbury, Maryland.

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She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Salisbury University, where she graduated summa cum laude. While working as a newspaper and magazine managing editor, she wrote features articles and designed pages that earned Associated Press and Maryland/District of Columbia Press Association awards. She also worked as the manager of corporate communications for a Fortune 500 company, director of marketing for an international organization, and manager of creative services for a county government.  I Hope I Die on the Dance Floor of the Jack Tarr Hotel is her first book.

 

She enjoys painting when the spirit moves her and rabble-rousing when politics inflame her. She is also a hands-on grandmother of three. She strives to be as loving and important to them as her own grandmother—the inimitable and indomitable Sugar—was to her.